For the Emperor???!!

Okay so yeah I'm back to playing my Black Templars/Sisters army. One of my fellow players who is playing in my planetary empires campaign is using his Black Templar Drop pod army and just seeing these zealous guys in action made me feel like pulling out my army again. The funny thing is I started this blog to talk about painting my Sisters as an ally of my Black Templar's which I actually got done with except the immolater and the Rhino. I do have several more sisters but not enough to start a dedicated army. For now, I will keep them as allies to my black templars, maybe in time I will have enough to do small point 1000pt games.

The latest rumor is that they will get a PDF. codex like the blood angels did which I would welcome, just hope they finally release some plastic sisters as well. This last Saturday I played 2 games with them getting a tie against a heavy mech IG army who had 4 leman russ tanks, this game I lost due to making 2 key mistakes, 1 having one of my troop squads running off an objective to kill a vanquisher tank as I didn't want it to kill my landraider crusader. I should have kept them their and thus won the game 3-2. My other one was a terrible "noobie" mistake, since my immolater was immobilized, I decided to jump my Dominion squad into the landraider crusader as my Sword Brethren had already jumped out of it and killed 3 squads and a tank.

My Dominion squad and my Cannoness jumped into the crusader and leaped out in front of my opponents veteran squad who was claiming an objective and with 4 flamers, killed all but one of the vets, the problem came as I also fired my cannoness' bolt pistol and my sister superior's bolter thus I couldnt assault after even though they had come out of a landraider, that one vet cost me the game. The other game was just an absolute slaughter, it was a game against a straight marine player complete with Calgar. My emperors champ actually put 3 wounds on him and ended up killing him in the next assault phase, wow the best my champ has done. I did have 2 5 man assault squads hold up one of my 20 man squads for almost 3 turns as my opponent was rolling absolutely fantastic. He was making all kinds of saves until my champ got a hold of the squad and just started killing them with his black sword. This Saturday will be the last week of my campaign, a 2000pts battle for all the marbles and yes my black templars will be making another appearance as a ringer if someone decides not to show... If they all show well then it will be time for some more fun pick up games. Pics are of my Sisters squads with my "Cannoness"; the Emperor's Champ is from GW, I will post pics of my Black Templars in another post..I keep promising myself that I will continue to work on my chaos army again, or course when that will happen is anybody's guess... Geez I really need to focus...

Plantery Empires...

This weekend is the 2nd round of my Planetary Empires Campaign. I asked the GW manager if he would allow me to run a Plantary Empires campaign several weeks ago and he loved the idea. I purchased the tile set about a year ago and have only got to use it once since then, a campaign in which I tried to do a team based one failed miserably as I had a huge issue with getting 12 players to "show up" to play. I decided to run this one without some of the complications in team games and opened it up to 8 players who will fight it out in a 4 week campaign. I modified the rules as well, basically the rules for the buildings I kept the same such as getting a USR for each command bunker for a unit, 50 additional points for each manufactorum, etc. I did create some specific scenarios however kept them pretty simple as to not confuse the players or myself.

The Map is just great for keeping track of wins and losses and inspires players to try their best at winning as with each loss, they lose one of their precious tiles. The games have been surprising with the supposed "good" players losing to the mediocre players in some games and supposed top codex's losing to non competitive ones. All in all the campaign has been fun to run and I can't wait to start another one, I will just make it a point to play in the next one as in this one everybody is showing up to play with no chance to play the "ringer" unlike the last time I ran it. The next time will also have more of a theme, Imperium vs. Chaos/Xenos or something like that. We shall see..

Fear... Fear is my Ally...

Yeah,Yeah, I know its been said before but I just love that statement when referencing my Nightlords especially after reading Soul Hunter. Its been a long time since I pulled them back out again, but I decided to for my local GW's Kill team tournament held this last Saturday.

I spent the week leading up to Saturday wondering what army to pull out for this tourney as the 200 points limit really limits my options. I tried the 6 Chaos Terminator list which works great but I was fearing that people would find ways to bring in vehicles or worse dreads. The Termie list I was going to take had no way of killing dreads from range or Close Combat; I tried playing around with taking 2 combi-meltas but relying on 2 one shot guns isn't something I'm to keen on.

I did some practice games with the terminators and found that missing with the combi-meltas could cost me the game. I also tried out a team of 5 Tau stealthsuits. I could do 6 but found that needing 4's to hit was a real downer for me. 5 with targeting arrays did really well in 2 test games that I did with them against a tyranid player and a chaos space marine player.

The stealthfield generator guaranteed that my opponents needed to roll just to see them any time they fired at my suits which caused some frustration. I was about to take these and just remembered that speed, real speed might be the way to go with this one. Tau battlesuits really are not fast, they just appear to be fast and since I really wanted something that could also kill mech, it was going to be tough unless I got rear armor shots; enter my Nightlord Raptors. Yeah, yeah, people hate assault marines and I do admit that they really lost a lot in the 4th ed codex, but being able to take 9 of them with 2 melta guns really was tempting. In the end I took the Nightlords and they preformed great. On average I was facing 5-6 models tops with people taking dreads, landspeeders, terminators and even a Valkyrie. I won 3 of the 4 games including a victory in which the player didnt even get a turn, i blew up his valkyrie in my first turn and he lost 5 of his squad inside and rolled an 11 for his leadership.

I finally ended up losing to my friend where I rolled a 10 on my leadership after losing 5 models, thems the break I guess. Almost pulled it off, oh well, maybe next time. Pics are of some of my Raptors, let me know what you think.